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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2016 3:43:41 GMT -5
I bought a kind of soft netting from Gardener's Supply that I used around my raised beds to keep the bunnies from eating my carrot tops last year. It did good. My carrots didn't come up this year so I didn't bother to put up the netting and the bunnies got two low hanging tomatoes. Be careful not to mow over it, though - winds around the mower blade pretty well (ask my DH). www.gardeners.com/buy/rabbit-and-pest-fence/8586794.html It works for rabbits, not sure if chipmunks can climb?
You have to plant peas in February around here, I waited until March and we had such an early and hot summer that they died back before they made very many peas. Unfortunately, because I love peas. I'll have to make sure to get out early next year.
I've tried to find a pea variety that tolerates hot weather, but I don't think there is such a thing. U of Georgia suggests planting pinto beans instead. Yuck.
We have a first generation chipmunk in our yard. Little bugger digs up an acorn from somewhere in the frickin' yard and brings it over to the kitchen stairs every frickin' week and sits there and eats it. If I catch him eating one of the bulbs that he keeps digging up, I am hauling ass out and beating him with a shovel. I don't care how cute he is. He keeps digging up the tulip bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was supposed to have a couple other plants but I can't remember what now because that little bastard dug all the effing bulbs up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh chipmunks climb. Boy do they climb. They climb up my parents screen porch in order to launch themselves at the bird feeders three feet from the screen. Half my entertainment when I visit there is the ongoing chipmunk vs human struggle over bird seed. With the chipmunk often winning. Which is saying something for the almost two decade struggle...I don't think they live that long so the must be passing down the knowledge to the next generation.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2016 13:24:21 GMT -5
My garden is doing well...
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 6, 2016 9:21:44 GMT -5
My garden is doing well... Has Shoeless Joe Jackson walked out of that cornfield yet?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 9:44:10 GMT -5
My garden is doing well... Has Shoeless Joe Jackson walked out of that cornfield yet? No baseball players or Children of the Corn...so far.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 6, 2016 9:55:21 GMT -5
Has Shoeless Joe Jackson walked out of that cornfield yet? No baseball players or Children of the Corn...so far. What or who else might be in that cornfield?
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Aug 6, 2016 9:55:40 GMT -5
I need to trap and release my chipmunk. I've spent hundreds of dollars and hundreds of hours (okay, maybe not hundreds of hours, but a lot) on my tomato plants. He has beaten me to every.single.ripe.one. I bought bird netting and he laughed at me as he chewed his way though. I've taken to running out of the house screaming at him when I see him near the plants. I'm expecting the neighbors to call CPS or the men in the white coats any day now. Aaargghh.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 6, 2016 10:06:24 GMT -5
I need to trap and release my chipmunk. I've spent hundreds of dollars and hundreds of hours (okay, maybe not hundreds of hours, but a lot) on my tomato plants. He has beaten me to every.single.ripe.one. I bought bird netting and he laughed at me as he chewed his way though. I've taken to running out of the house screaming at him when I see him near the plants. I'm expecting the neighbors to call CPS or the men in the white coats any day now. Aaargghh. If you have not been able to catch/trap the chipmunk, have you thought about diverting it from your tomates buy putting out some bird/sun flower seeds along its known path to the tomatoes? The chimunk just might find the seed plenty enough food to bring back to its burrow.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Aug 6, 2016 10:15:50 GMT -5
I need to trap and release my chipmunk. I've spent hundreds of dollars and hundreds of hours (okay, maybe not hundreds of hours, but a lot) on my tomato plants. He has beaten me to every.single.ripe.one. I bought bird netting and he laughed at me as he chewed his way though. I've taken to running out of the house screaming at him when I see him near the plants. I'm expecting the neighbors to call CPS or the men in the white coats any day now. Aaargghh. If you have not been able to catch/trap the chipmunk, have you thought about diverting it from your tomates buy putting out some bird/sun flower seeds along its known path to the tomatoes? The chimunk just might find the seed plenty enough food to bring back to its burrow. Tenn, I haven't tried to trap him yet -- hoping to borrow a Havahart from a neighbor or else I'll head out today and buy one. Alternative meals will be my Plan C, although, I don't want to entice raccoons and possums and other such stuff, too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 19:43:11 GMT -5
Summer temps in the upper 90's have pretty much wiped out the garden except for a couple of stubborn jalapenos and a lot of oranges. Time will tell if we actually harvest any oranges b/c they are highly favored by possums and rats.
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Post by yogiii on Aug 7, 2016 6:41:17 GMT -5
If you have not been able to catch/trap the chipmunk, have you thought about diverting it from your tomates buy putting out some bird/sun flower seeds along its known path to the tomatoes? The chimunk just might find the seed plenty enough food to bring back to its burrow. Tenn, I haven't tried to trap him yet -- hoping to borrow a Havahart from a neighbor or else I'll head out today and buy one. Alternative meals will be my Plan C, although, I don't want to entice raccoons and possums and other such stuff, too. After the 3 woodchucks were re-located we left the trap out and re-located 2 chipmunks so far. I recommend putting one of the tomatoes they already destroyed in there. My fridge is pretty much being taken over by cucumbers. I need to give away more.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 12:31:36 GMT -5
Tenn, I haven't tried to trap him yet -- hoping to borrow a Havahart from a neighbor or else I'll head out today and buy one. Alternative meals will be my Plan C, although, I don't want to entice raccoons and possums and other such stuff, too. After the 3 woodchucks were re-located we left the trap out and re-located 2 chipmunks so far. I recommend putting one of the tomatoes they already destroyed in there. My fridge is pretty much being taken over by cucumbers. I need to give away more. I live less than 20 miles from the border. Tell me when and where and you can throw them at me on your way to work. I grew nothing this year except some really fabulous weeds, a woodchuck and a chipmunk. Hopefully next year the butterfly bushes and 2 transplanted bushes will produce flowers, even if just a couple.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 7, 2016 12:36:17 GMT -5
My basil is crap this year. Not sure why, other than we have really not had a good stretch of hot sunny weather. I'll be harvesting it all in the next week or so to make pesto. I should have had enough plants for a couple batches of pesto, plus what I've been using for cooking. I've used up all the pesto I had in the freezer from last year, so may have yo supplement.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Aug 7, 2016 14:02:55 GMT -5
Tenn, I haven't tried to trap him yet -- hoping to borrow a Havahart from a neighbor or else I'll head out today and buy one. Alternative meals will be my Plan C, although, I don't want to entice raccoons and possums and other such stuff, too. After the 3 woodchucks were re-located we left the trap out and re-located 2 chipmunks so far. I recommend putting one of the tomatoes they already destroyed in there. My fridge is pretty much being taken over by cucumbers. I need to give away more.Make pickles?
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Post by yogiii on Aug 7, 2016 14:31:54 GMT -5
After the 3 woodchucks were re-located we left the trap out and re-located 2 chipmunks so far. I recommend putting one of the tomatoes they already destroyed in there. My fridge is pretty much being taken over by cucumbers. I need to give away more.Make pickles? We make salsa and tomato sauce out of all the extra tomatoes, pesto from the basil. I can't add something else, too stressful
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